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Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi

Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi is a lawyer and a Senior Research Fellow at the Development Watch Centre
55 Articles
Joined February 2025
Is China a Democracy?

Is China a Democracy?

One of the hardest – and perhaps most controversial definitions in political literature today is democracy. What is democracy? Who decides what is democratic? Is there a universal value attached...
China Expands Africa’s International Trade Potential

China Expands Africa’s International Trade Potential

Any country’s development plays out based on its participation in international trade. Countries with higher participation in global trade are comparatively wealthier than those with lower participation. Therefore, for African...
Revamping Uganda’s Vocational Education: Lessons From China

Revamping Uganda’s Vocational Education: Lessons From China

Recently, a vocational institute in Uganda entered a memorandum of understanding with China’s Hunan Mechanical and Electrical Polytechnic (HMEP). I was delighted to learn that Uganda’s Luyanzi Institute of Technology...
Rethinking Africa’s Education Systems: Lessons from China

Rethinking Africa’s Education Systems: Lessons from China

Let me first caveat the fact this is a sweeping generalization as far as reference to “Africa’s education systems” is concerned. But I believe the generalization will still meet some...
Lessons From China’s Climate Change Strategy

Lessons From China’s Climate Change Strategy

For a long time, China was known for relegating the challenge of combating climate change to “developed countries.” It did not consider itself among them and thus stood alongside developing...
Africa cross-pollinates civilizations

Africa cross-pollinates civilizations

Samuel Huntington riled many minds in the international relations circles when in 1993, he published “The Clash of Civilizations?”, a controversial article which he later expanded (and I would add,...
Global Security Initiative: Securing World Peace

Global Security Initiative: Securing World Peace

The Global Security Initiative is one of China’s multiple International public governance resources. It was conceived by comrade Xi Jin Ping in an effort to secure world peace by trumping...
Kikuubo Vs Chinese: The dialectics of Uganda’s development

Kikuubo Vs Chinese: The dialectics of Uganda’s development

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has consistently articulated his vision as well as NRM’s historical mission as the socio-economic transformation of Uganda. This vision/mission entails the transformation of Uganda from a...